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| || 1961 April 12 || Yuri Gagarin || 1967 November 9 || Apollo 4 first "all up" unmanned || | || 1961 April 12 || Yuri Gagarin - Vostok 1 || 1967 November 9 || Apollo 4 first "all up" unmanned || |
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| || 1964 October 12 || Voskhod 1, 3 cosmonauts || | || 1964 October 12 ||<-2> Voskhod 1, 3 cosmonauts ''no room for space suits'' || .p003 1955, railway from Moscow to Tashkent, small stop at Tyuratam .p017 1958 end, project Mercury begun .p021 1959 April 9 Mercury astronaut first press conference .p016 1960 October 24 R-16 rocket explosion killed 74 including strategic missile chief Mitrofan Nedelin .p009 1960 December 24 . . . recovery of 2m diameter 2500 kg capsule with two dogs, 5th flight, barely survived . most dog fights failed, 1960 August third flight Belka and Strelka survived .p016 two further dog tests .p021 1961 Mercury astronauts in Langley building 60, Glenn and Shepard front runners .p024 Glenn(1929) 57 WW2 missions, 59 Korea missions, 3 kills, 5 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_(United_States) | DFCs ]] 1957 fastest cross country, ''Name That Tune'' .p024 Shepard(1923) Navy test pilot, no combat, looped Chesapeake Bay bridge ~1952 .p026 Carpenter(1925) hobby playing guitar .p004 1961 6000 km2 ellipse Baikonur Cosmodrome ready for Vostok 1 .p004 R-7 rocket type 8K27K 28.4 meters tall 280 tonnes, 3 (RDS-37) to 5 MT (RDS-46) warhead (5300 kg?) . 3x more powerful than 118 tonne Atlas . . . US Mk 4 RV with 3.75MT W-38 warhead massed 1840 kg .p029 Tsentr Podgotovki Kosmonavtov Military Unit 26266, Shchyolkovsky district 41 km NE of Moscow .p030 later Zvyozdny Godorok, Star City, near [[ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Voyennyy+Aerodrom+Chkalovsk/@54.7623275,20.3988322,6195m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x46e33f95d0d2662d:0x91eab0e40cc917c7!8m2!3d54.7711105!4d20.4080161 | Chkalovsky Air Base ]] . named after [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Chkalov | Valery Chkalov ]], who flew nonstop from Moscow to Vancouver WA in 1937 .p030 6 cosmonauts, shorter ( < 170cm ) and in 20s, not 30s like Mercury, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_programme#Vanguard_Six | Vanguard 6 ]] . Gagarin, Bykovskiy, Nelyubov, Nikolayev, Popovich, and Titov. .p030 Vostok simulator in LII Gromov Flight Research Institute in [[ https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy+Ispytatel'nyy+Tsentr+Podgotovki+Kosmonavtov+Imeni+Yu.a.+Gagarina,+Zvyozdny+gorodok,+Moscow+Oblast,+Russia,+141160/The+Gromov+Flight+Research+Institute,+Moscow+oblast,+Zhukovskiy,+%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9,+Russia,+140180/@55.7511243,37.8353269,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x414b2ac6182b23bb:0x97cdc32d0054bfbc!2m2!1d38.1126455!2d55.8735303!1m5!1m1!1s0x414abf524c000001:0x1ca0ccaa5f4d4367!2m2!1d38.1179548!2d55.6026183!3e0 | Zhukovsky ]], 45 km SE of Moscow .p031 14 more in training, top secret, relatives unaware, wives knew a little .p038 Gagarin born 1934 in [[ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Klushino,+Smolensk+Oblast,+Russia,+215033/@55.6672643,35.0421,757m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x46ca39b7f8e14a53:0x45839a4d6efe39e1!8m2!3d55.6689695!4d35.0469661 | Klushino, Smolensk Oblast ]] 190 km west of Moscow, carpenter father Aleksey, literate mother Anna .p039 German occupation 1941 October 2, evicted from house, lived in dugout, homeschooled. p040 Younger brother Boris hanged, survived with damage p040 liberated 1943 spring .p041 moved to [[ https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Klushino,+Smolensk+Oblast,+Russia,+215033/Gagarin,+Smolensk+Oblast,+Russia,+215010/@55.5965572,34.995869,12z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x46ca39b7f8e14a53:0x45839a4d6efe39e1!2m2!1d35.0469661!2d55.6689695!1m5!1m1!1s0x46ca4a03ec78b8e7:0x10ff95242af48b1b!2m2!1d34.9964718!2d55.5535448!3e0 | Gzhatsk ]] (now Gagarin) ~20 km south .p041 Gagarin studied foundry work at [[ http://en.sstu.ru/ | Saratov technical college ]] .p041 [[ https://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invId=16228669806&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=oP5Nuw5q6fc&utm_campaign=2&siteID=oP5Nuw5q6fc-aCt4lddOIWR0VcDGkxyRcw | Road to the Stars ]] by "Yuri Gagarin" 2002 english printing .p042 Gagarin graduated with top marks in 31/32 subjects, chose jet pilot rather than smelting specialist. .p042 Titov: Gagarin 'could talk to anybody ... in every situation he would find the key to people' .p046 Johnson: 'control of space means control of the world'. .p047 Kennedy: both sides ... explore the stars ... (embedded in a long laundry list of platitudes) .p048 MIT's Wiesner advised Kennedy to modify or cancel Mercury, then made science advisor .p050 Shame and Danger: reactions to the Sputniks .p055 navy Vanguard's TV-3 failure on December 6, 1957 .p057 von Braun's Juno (modified Jupiter-C) launches Explorer 1 on January 31, 1958 / Cover of Time, Feb 17 .p058 May 1958 Sputnik 3, 3000 pound orbiting science laboratory .p059 US better H-bombs meant smaller rockets, though Saturn was on the drawing board .p065 Scott Carpenter, relatively inexperienced pilot but superb physical shape. .p067 philandering Gordon Cooper was (secretly) separated, but reconciled to improve his chances .p068 Glenn was cheerful and charming .p071 KC-135 vomit comet, 30 seconds of weightlessness .p072 1960 Nov 21, Mercury Redstone MR-1 lifted 3.8 inches, escape tower launched itself, Mercury parachutes deployed. . modification led to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_1#Causes_of_the_failure | miswired connector separating in wrong order ]]. .p075 1960 Dec 19, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_1A | MR-1A ]] mission completely successful .p076 1959: Yuri Gagarin and wife Valentina at [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luostari/Pechenga_(air_base) | Luostari air base ]] .p079 2461 pilots considered, 352 candidates interviewed by doctors,134 tested at Moscow aviation hospital .p084 Gherman Titov secretly told wife Tamara (violating rules) .p086 First 12 of 20 inducted into Military Unit 26266 in March 1960; younger than US, healthier, inexperienced .p090 '''Korolev''' Chief Designer of OKB-1 long range missiles .p092 1938 June 27 arrested by Stalin's NKVD, confession extracted, broken jaw, prison, 1938 Kolyma Siberia gold mine . 1939 to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka | sharashka ]] to design ricket engines, released in July 1944 .p095 1950 2xV-2 R-2, 1953 750 mi range R-5. 1957 R-7 ICBM .p097 Left first wive Kseniya and daughter Natalya, married second wife Nina in 1949 . not in book: textile worker and parachutist Valentina Tereshkova Vostok 6, 16 June 1963, 48 orbits almost 3 days |
Beyond
2021 Stephen Walker BvLib 629.45 WAL
I was a small child when this history occured:
1957 October 4 |
Sputnik |
and later on |
|
1958 January 31 |
Explorer 1 |
1965 March 23 |
Gemini 3, Grissom & Young |
this history |
1965 December 15 |
Gemini 6 & 7 Rendezvous |
|
1961 January 20 |
Kennedy inauguration |
1966 November 11 |
Gemini 12, Lovell & Aldrin |
1961 April 12 |
Yuri Gagarin - Vostok 1 |
1967 November 9 |
Apollo 4 first "all up" unmanned |
1961 April 17 |
Bay of Pigs invasion |
1968 October 11 |
Apollo 7 first crew |
1961 May 5 |
Mercury Alan Shepard |
1968 December 21 |
Apollo 8 to lunar orbit |
1961 May 25 |
Kennedy moon speech |
1969 July 16 |
Apollo 11 to lunar landing |
1961 October 27 |
Saturn Apollo 1 rocket test |
1971 April 19 |
Salyut 1 space station |
1962 Feb 20 |
John Glenn - Mercury |
1973 May 14 |
Skylab space station |
1964 April 8 |
Gemini 1, no crew |
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1964 October 12 |
Voskhod 1, 3 cosmonauts no room for space suits |
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- p003 1955, railway from Moscow to Tashkent, small stop at Tyuratam
- p017 1958 end, project Mercury begun
- p021 1959 April 9 Mercury astronaut first press conference
- p016 1960 October 24 R-16 rocket explosion killed 74 including strategic missile chief Mitrofan Nedelin
- p009 1960 December 24 . . . recovery of 2m diameter 2500 kg capsule with two dogs, 5th flight, barely survived
- most dog fights failed, 1960 August third flight Belka and Strelka survived
- p016 two further dog tests
- p021 1961 Mercury astronauts in Langley building 60, Glenn and Shepard front runners
p024 Glenn(1929) 57 WW2 missions, 59 Korea missions, 3 kills, 5 DFCs 1957 fastest cross country, Name That Tune
- p024 Shepard(1923) Navy test pilot, no combat, looped Chesapeake Bay bridge ~1952
- p026 Carpenter(1925) hobby playing guitar
- p004 1961 6000 km2 ellipse Baikonur Cosmodrome ready for Vostok 1
- p004 R-7 rocket type 8K27K 28.4 meters tall 280 tonnes, 3 (RDS-37) to 5 MT (RDS-46) warhead (5300 kg?)
- 3x more powerful than 118 tonne Atlas . . . US Mk 4 RV with 3.75MT W-38 warhead massed 1840 kg
- p029 Tsentr Podgotovki Kosmonavtov Military Unit 26266, Shchyolkovsky district 41 km NE of Moscow
p030 later Zvyozdny Godorok, Star City, near Chkalovsky Air Base
named after Valery Chkalov, who flew nonstop from Moscow to Vancouver WA in 1937
p030 6 cosmonauts, shorter ( < 170cm ) and in 20s, not 30s like Mercury, Vanguard 6
- Gagarin, Bykovskiy, Nelyubov, Nikolayev, Popovich, and Titov.
p030 Vostok simulator in LII Gromov Flight Research Institute in Zhukovsky, 45 km SE of Moscow
- p031 14 more in training, top secret, relatives unaware, wives knew a little
p038 Gagarin born 1934 in Klushino, Smolensk Oblast 190 km west of Moscow, carpenter father Aleksey, literate mother Anna
- p039 German occupation 1941 October 2, evicted from house, lived in dugout, homeschooled. p040 Younger brother Boris hanged, survived with damage p040 liberated 1943 spring
p041 moved to Gzhatsk (now Gagarin) ~20 km south
p041 Gagarin studied foundry work at Saratov technical college
p041 Road to the Stars by "Yuri Gagarin" 2002 english printing
- p042 Gagarin graduated with top marks in 31/32 subjects, chose jet pilot rather than smelting specialist.
- p042 Titov: Gagarin 'could talk to anybody ... in every situation he would find the key to people'
- p046 Johnson: 'control of space means control of the world'.
- p047 Kennedy: both sides ... explore the stars ... (embedded in a long laundry list of platitudes)
- p048 MIT's Wiesner advised Kennedy to modify or cancel Mercury, then made science advisor
- p050 Shame and Danger: reactions to the Sputniks
- p055 navy Vanguard's TV-3 failure on December 6, 1957
- p057 von Braun's Juno (modified Jupiter-C) launches Explorer 1 on January 31, 1958 / Cover of Time, Feb 17
- p058 May 1958 Sputnik 3, 3000 pound orbiting science laboratory
- p059 US better H-bombs meant smaller rockets, though Saturn was on the drawing board
- p065 Scott Carpenter, relatively inexperienced pilot but superb physical shape.
- p067 philandering Gordon Cooper was (secretly) separated, but reconciled to improve his chances
- p068 Glenn was cheerful and charming
- p071 KC-135 vomit comet, 30 seconds of weightlessness
- p072 1960 Nov 21, Mercury Redstone MR-1 lifted 3.8 inches, escape tower launched itself, Mercury parachutes deployed.
modification led to miswired connector separating in wrong order.
p075 1960 Dec 19, MR-1A mission completely successful
p076 1959: Yuri Gagarin and wife Valentina at Luostari air base
- p079 2461 pilots considered, 352 candidates interviewed by doctors,134 tested at Moscow aviation hospital
- p084 Gherman Titov secretly told wife Tamara (violating rules)
- p086 First 12 of 20 inducted into Military Unit 26266 in March 1960; younger than US, healthier, inexperienced
p090 Korolev Chief Designer of OKB-1 long range missiles
- p092 1938 June 27 arrested by Stalin's NKVD, confession extracted, broken jaw, prison, 1938 Kolyma Siberia gold mine
1939 to sharashka to design ricket engines, released in July 1944
- p095 1950 2xV-2 R-2, 1953 750 mi range R-5. 1957 R-7 ICBM
- p097 Left first wive Kseniya and daughter Natalya, married second wife Nina in 1949
- not in book: textile worker and parachutist Valentina Tereshkova Vostok 6, 16 June 1963, 48 orbits almost 3 days